That hand washed dishes should be rinsed with clean water?

Wrong. Not washing up at all or letting the pets do it for you is rank....
Not rinsing is just a choice, makes no difference.

I only rinse glasses. Nothing else. I don't have a dishwasher. I dry up soon after.

People who are saying they don't rinse because they are saving the planet they fill bowls full of water to wash the dishes, water is still being used. Why not skip the bowl filling step and use that water to rinse after washing

But generally people wash up how they've seen washing up being done in their household and think this is the correct way

Definitely rinse! Very hot water in the bowl after scrubbing with soap. I cannot comprehend how anyone stand not to rinse the soap and grime off.

I have a dishwasher but having it removed as I'm sick of loading and unloading and then finding I have to wash things again.

My ex always washing up like I do now, and he used to say how gross it was having them all a sink full of dirty water so I really struggle to wash up like that now. And yes, you’d need a clean sink to do that, which mine often isn’t either. Have been spoilt with a dishwasher the last 5yrs or so, but prior to that I always washed up by hand.

Always rinse! To not do so if fucking rank

We always did at Brownies. One bowl with soapy water, one for rinsing.

Exactly the way I do it. I wil admit it's partly because the sink is often too gross to wash them in.

I always rinse, but then I don’t fill a sink to wash dishes, i’l squirt with washing up liquid and wash individually (in reality plates in dishwasher but pans / trays I wash like this. I don’t like idea of dishes washed in dirty water, and you definitely need to rinse when washing in a bowl of water like that.

Same here. No outside tap so car gets a 3 bucket wash, plants watered from the water butt, no pool, no pressure washer, just a shower (no bath) and I rinse washing up by turning the tap on for each item. I don’t think it’s my household running the reservoirs down.

That's so gross. Worse, I had a roommate in my youth who used the dish cloth to wipe her toddler's ass, then briefly rinsed it in the sink the dishes were soaking in. After I saw that I offered to be the exclusive dishwasher in the household.

I would never use a cloth twice either. They grow moldy when they sit there damp. I air them outside if I can't wash them right away. I have a dishwasher but I do hand wash delicate things.

I thought everyone rinsed the soap. The Fairy adverts where they dipped the plate into a big tub of soapy water and pulled it out gleaming and spotless to stack away confused me as a kid as I thought they were missing some vital steps there.

I agree. All these posters going on about the soapy taste, unless you have very strange washing up liquid in the UK that is a load of nonsense.

As a pp said, the dishes out of a dishwasher often have a funny taste about them, never noticed it from hand washed dishes.

People who waste time and energy on this - just weird.

I rinse because the amount of hand washing I do is minimal - I bought my first dishwasher almost 26 years ago, when I was 21, and I have had one ever since. If I was hand washing lots of dishes, I may not be so methodical. I also leave things to drain, before finishing with a tea towel. I am no germaphobe, but I do have a healthy dislike of dishcloths and tea towels which have been used more than once.

My mother-in-law always had a stinky, damp, grey dishcloth somewhere near the sink, which was used for everything from washing the dishes to cleaning the worktops, and anything in between. I keep a supply of face cloths and terry tea towels in my kitchen drawer, and they go out for a wash each time they are used.

It has never occurred to me that I could get sick from not rinsing dishes, but the taste of and smell washing-up liquid on plates is vile.

Of course it isn't. If people knew what kind of toxic crap was in dish soap they might think differently. Formaldehyde and phalates, even ammonia in some cases, just to name a few. Gross.
Besides, dish soap emulsifies the grease and dirt but rinsing is what removes it.

This is one of those topics that is very divisive on MN! I wash my dishes under running hot water with detergent and then rinse till the soap is gone, then put in the drainer. Otherwise soap suds remain and I can taste that residue. I think it's a good method but no doubt someone somewhere disagrees!

Always rinse. The water bill says I am a below average user as well

How often have you told your mother in law she’s disgusting out of interest?

I had a boyfriend who would do this but just put wet plates away. You’d take one out and water would run down your wrist and I used to wash things before I used them. An ex, weirdly.

You're right and he's full of shit.

What? You had taps. It doesn’t matter what temperature soap is rinsed off them with. That’s bizarre!

Interesting to read so many my SIL/MIL etc doesn't rinse.

If only men could wash dishes.

We rinse and then leave to air dry. However we don't think we'll die from fairy liquid residue and I can't fathom the meaning of the poster whose MIL (of course) doesn't rinse and she attributes a layer of grease to this? Very odd.

Get a dishwasher

Definitely rinse!

Ok. Never been ill from detergent residue. Happy now?